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	<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Wavy distortion</h1>
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		<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p><b>Wavy distortion</b> - sometimes also called mustache distortion - is a mixed distortion, it is a radial image distortion introduced by the lens itself. 
</p><p>It often shows <a href="Barrel_distortion.html" title="Barrel distortion">barrel distortion</a> near the center and <a href="Pincushion_distortion.html" title="Pincushion distortion">pincushion distortion</a> along the edges. This type forms a bubble in the image center and is also reffered to as <b>bubble distortion</b>. The opposite variant with <a href="Pincushion_distortion.html" title="Pincushion distortion">pincushion distortion</a> in the center and <a href="Barrel_distortion.html" title="Barrel distortion">barrel distortion</a> along the edges exists too, but is rarely seen in real life lenses.
</p><p>Wavy distortion of any variant is a common <a href="Lens_distortion.html" title="Lens distortion">Lens distortion</a> that can be corrected by the <a href="Lens_correction_model.html" title="Lens correction model">lens correction model</a> of panotools.
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<div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:647px;"><a class="external" href="https://wiki.panotools.org/File:Bubble-distortion.jpg"><img alt="" src="Bubble-distortion.jpg" decoding="async" width="645" height="240" class="thumbimage" /></a>  <div class="thumbcaption">A photograph showing exaggerated wavy distortion (of the bubble variant)</div></div></div>

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